The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-03-24
A Word for Pork.


In this country where it is tha
cheapest of ill meat. roast pork is oft1
en & rarely used and ,lespi.ad dish, ex1
crpt by Germans and Irish In Enz
@iish cities where pork is the most ex-
pensiye meat. Il loin costing more pen
pound than sirlon of beef, where pork
Sansages are twenty-five cents to twen-
ty-four cents 4 pound, while beef sau>
Sages IA fayorife dish. with London
Working people) are twelve cents to
sixteen cents. pork is looked upon aa
great treat. Ii is only because it iz
cheap that ii is despised? know
many believe it To be unwholesome; is
not this. too. partly prejudice There
are some people certainly who c0haoe
eat pork, but there are also some to
whom veal is almost poison. As to it's
Wholesomeness, | think we ought to-
look at the people who almost live or
it. The English agricultural popula-
ton, the Germans. who i'll their varioux
sausages eat it in all forms. Whera
are there healthier people than thosa
English or those Germans? Look at
the children who, from the time thewi
are weaned, eat daily such fat pork a4
would make one shudder TO think Ofa
i'll English rural districts it is not am
occasional. but Il steady diet day after
day all the year around At the road
side. sitting on the mossy banks that
flank the fields they are tiling, may be.
seen laborers with hunch of bread
and thick slice of pork or of bacom
Oh the top of it, solid fat, and a.
''thumb piece" (a small piece of bread
that the thumb rests ON, while they
cut down through fat and bread Will.
their knives. This. with perhaps a
raw onion and a drink of beer, is their
daily dinner year in and year out. but
do you suppose they know anything of
dyspepsia? | don't think many OF
them ever heard the word, and ona
look at the ruddy skin, the strong
frames even of their old people will
tell you that. OF course the outdoors
life makes difference, but the school
children are the rosiest and chubbiest-
Take at random amy group of these
pork fed children and there will not bs
sickly one among them.
When these girls and bows go to-
London, as in these days most do, thew
take places where there is abundant
fresh meat, fare such as they never
dreamed of and the one thing thev
crave is their country pork, not that
pork is not eaten in London, but it is
expensive, and it is not the s'pickIed''
pork with several inches OF fat, thew
love SO well. In the baskets OF coun-
try women visiting city friends, is al
ways piece OF this picked pork ant
sometimes piece OF bacon is packed
and brought away in a trunk
To the London working classes
roast leg or loin of pork stuffed, is the,
next luxury to roast goose, and the
working people, if they cannot afford
a goose. take pork and sage and onions
for Christmas dinner as the next best
Thing. roast beef or mutton being the.
usual Sunday dinner and therefore not
treat.
| suppose there are no harder.
healthier races in the world thau tha
English and Germans. especially the
country people; both are largely pork
fed.
should perhaps state that | speak
only from observation. | have no
scientific knowledge on the subject,
Pork fakes its place in my family in
change with other meats, and We know
nothing of dyspepsia, which we might
do if the American climate made the
use of pork unadvisable
Another thing urged against pork is.
that the pig is an uncleanlv feeder, but
no one says this of that dainty bird the
chicken. Is there any filth a pig
would eat that Il chicken would not2i
Do not chickens revel in offale Can
there be more uncleanlv feeder? If
it is the food of the animal that units
ii for use, then the chicken must coma,
under That ban.
| kno.,. ,r..,.,' -s.-'.., me they have
never eaten fresh roast pork. If there
are any among my readers who o-not
vet know the excellence of roast leg of
pork with the cracking neatly scored
and crisped, stuffed with bread. sage
and boiled onions, and eaten with
apple sauce, let her buy one. and roast
it till it is brown as chestnut, anG
perhaps she will thank HE for persuade
ing her. Perhaps in her house MRS.
Poyser's STUFFED chine may come to-
hold a place of honor as a savory joint
To have ON hand.-Cdtherine OCen, irE
Good Housekeeping.